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30 x 30 challenge!

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Ashcombe gardens and maze Janine Adams from Organize Your Family History  challenges genealogists to do this regularly, and boy do I need this!  Basically - to quote Janine -  you commit to doing 30 minutes of genealogy research /organizing/whatever for 30 days in a row (i.e. the month of November). The “rules” of this challenge are very fluid. For example, you could decide that, for you, 30 minutes daily translates into 15 hours of activity over the course of the month.  So I'm going to try and do this for the next 30 days.  Wish me luck! What am I going to do? Well for a start - organize all the photos I took in Melbourne last month. What photos? Let's step back a bit and I will put this in context.   Last month, I finally made it to Melbourne - something I'd been planning all year. I had to postpone it once - originally scheduled for May, but all my nearest and dearest in Melbourne were going overseas then so we rescheduled to October. My primary ...